Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 5, 2010

Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. The vendors also charged additional per-user fees for these modules. Social media.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Manticore Market2Lead Marketing Automation 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 3, 2009

Usability Items for Simple Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) Build a campaign as a list of stages Eloqua Manticore Technology Market2Lead Marketbright Marketo Neolane Silverpop Engage B2B 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 Build linear campaigns outside of a larger campaign structure.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 27, 2011

However, as your company grows, your marketing activities might need to scale as well. In this case, we suggest seeking out a best-of-breed vendor, such as Marketo , Eloqua , Genius , Manticore Technology , Genoo or the wide variety of other systems. Lauren Carlson is a CRM Market Analyst with Software Advice.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Salesforce.com Marketing Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 11, 2011

Looking through my files and asking a few questions, here are vendors for whom I have reasonably reliable information: This gives an average of $171,000 per employee. Indeed, the figure for the three slowest-growing companies (Unica, Aprimo and Alterian) comes to $194,000. This leaves all the other B2B marketing automation vendors.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation ActiveConversion 120

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Marketing automation / demand generation software provider Manticore today announced the release of Manticore Technology VII, which includes a fully customizable user interface, email and landing page folders, an email delivery wizard, and drag-and-drop list building functionality. The company's original focus was on web analytics.

Manticore 20

Manticore Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Automation 20

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The marketing automation industry continues to grow quickly, with many vendors announcing their client bases have more than doubled in 2011. Marketing automation vendors are painfully aware of these issues. Among B2B vendors, Eloqua is the poster child for this approach. They've taken a range of approaches to addressing them.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Marketing Automation Automation 120

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Marketing automation systems—from vendors like Eloqua , Marketo , Genoo , Manticore and others—are great tools for moving prospective buyers along the path from interest to desire to action. reputation (what’s known about your company, its image and brand?) But they’re just that: tools. Share this on FriendFeed.

Emarketing 100

Emarketing Marketing Automation Services Manticore Marketing Management 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 8, 2011

It followed $33 million in earlier funding since the company was founded in 2006. Even the most ambitious vision articulated by the vendors – radically more integrated, analytically-driven marketing management – won’t really change their sector of the marketing automation industry. intended to extend Google’s own business).

Salesforce.com 120

Salesforce.com Enterprise Management Hubspot Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 5, 2009

I spent a good part of yesterday talking with demand generation vendors about the usability scores I've been publishing all week. There might still be some others: two of the vendors haven't spoken with me, which could mean they agree with my ratings but, more likely, means they just haven't been paying attention. 9 Now what?

Lead Scoring 120

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Demand Generation Work Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I do recognize that they are the best known vendors in the space (with apologies to Vtrenz , whose identity is somewhat blurred since its purchase by Silverpop ). To be fair, many of the vendors below charge an installation of that can be several thousand dollars or more, while Marketo doesn't. Click read my March 18 review.]

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Demand Generation Cost Marketing Management Demand 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My little tour of demand generation vendors landed at Pardot just before Thanksgiving. As you’ll recall from my post on Web activity statistics , Pardot is one of the higher-ranked vendors not already in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. So I was quite curious to see what they had to offer. What I found was intriguing.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Enterprise Management Small Business Marketing Pricing 120

The Effective Marketer

MARCH 17, 2010

Design #11 Email Sender: Tableau Software Email Title: 50 Metrics Every Marketer Should Master What I Like: Small but visible logo on top left identifies the company immediately. Click on the images for larger version. Clean header graphic with big and concise title. Short copy. Right side bar with useful links related to the webinar.

Marketing Budget Creation 100

Marketing Budget Creation Work Management Marketing Management Design 100

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 3, 2009

Marketing automation software vendor Marketo today announced the launch of its Marketo Lead Management 3.0 Pricing starts at $1,500 per month and the company now has more than 150 midmarket and enterprise customers. software suite. But with an established platform and 200 enhancements in its new release, Marketo Lead Management 3.0

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketo Marketing Management LEADSExplorer 20

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. Demand Stream™ includes a Web widget that shows sales and marketing the names of companies visiting the Web site in near real-time.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management DemandBase Marketing Management 40

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Back in early January I posted a discussion on treatment of Company-Level Data in Demand Generation Systems. At that time, I posed a set of specific questions to the demand generation vendors in the Raab Guide. My original approach in the Guide had simply been to ask vendors whether they had a separate company table in their system.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Work Management Market2Lead Marketing Automation Services 120

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 4, 2009

Usability Items for Complex Marketing Programs (note: this is a slightly revised version of the original post, reflecting vendor feedback.) This post will complete the demand generation vendor usability scores by looking at items that contribute to usability for complex marketing programs. Multiple scores per lead.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Manticore 120

LeadSloth

JANUARY 12, 2010

Several new vendors appeared on the market, many existing vendors experienced rapid growth, and Marketing Automation as a term gained popularity among B2B marketers. I have asked many of the vendors, consultants and thought leaders to give their opinion. Christoper Doran , CMO, Manticore Technology. The Contributors.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Marketing Automation Sales Management Automation 100

Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 15, 2008

Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with “demand generation” software vendors including Eloqua , Vtrenz and Manticore , and been on the receiving end of a drip marketing stream from yet another (Moonray Marketing, lately renamed OfficeAutoPilot ). But it no longer seems to be the focus of their presentations.

Demand Generation 120

Demand Generation Demand Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2008

I still think that’s the case, but did revisit the topic recently in a conversation with Ken Rudin, CEO of on-demand business analytics vendor Lucid Era. The question here is whether most demand generation systems ( Eloqua , Vtrenz , Marketo , Market2Lead , Manticore , etc.) An open source columnar database—how cool is that?

Work Management 120

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Market2Lead 120

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management Work Management Marketing Management Lead Management 40